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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...by a complete abolition of the State as a political and juridical entity...; the destruction of all national and territorial States, and on their ruins the construction of an international State consisting of the millions of workmen.'3 'It is necessary, ' he said, 'to destroy all existing institutions--the State, the Church, the law court, the bank, the university, the army, and the police, all of which are fortresses of privilege against the proletariat. One method, which is particularly efficacious, 1 See his speech in Laveleye, p. 196. 2 Leroy-Beaulieu, Le Collectivisme, pp. 6-8. 3 Laveleye, p. 200. SOCIALISM, 1869-70 247 is to burn all papers, so as to destroy the whole legal basis of family and property. It is a colossal work, but it will be accomplished.'1 He objected to the Communists, that their theory recognised and strengthened the power of existing States, all of which must be abolished. It is a melancholy proof of the force of the volcanic elements that underlie civilised society that such a man should have obtained a large following. He represented a great body of French and Italian workmen in the Congress of Basle, and he set up a rival society, called ' An Alliance of the Social Democracy.' Its programme consisted of atheism; the abolition of all worship; the substitution of science for faith, and human justice for Divine justice; the abolition of marriage as a political, religious, judicial, and civil institution; of all inheritance; of private property in all its forms, and of all existing States and bodies invested with authority. Collective property and industrial associations, and ' universal and international solidarity, discarding all politics founded on so-called patriotism and the rivalry of nations, ' were to be the characteristics of...

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